Real-time tracking system for a moored oil tanker: A Kalman filter approach

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2013

Authors

Paulo Malheiros (Author) FEUP; Paulo Rosa Santos (Author) FEUP; José Gonçalves (Author) Other; Paulo Costa (Author) FEUP; António Paulo Moreira (Author) FEUP; Fernando Veloso Gomes (Author) FEUP; Francisco Taveira Pinto (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Advances in Sustainable and Competitive Manufacturing Systems. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

Pages: 749-760

23rd International Conference on Flexible Automation & Intelligent Manufacturing

Porto, Portugal, 26-28 June, 2013

Indexing

Scopus

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00557-7_62

Abstract (EN): This paper presents a tracking system developed to study the behavior of an oil tanker moored at the Berth ``A¿¿ of the Leixões Oil Terminal, Porto, Portugal. A brief description of the local environmental conditions and the existing operational conditions at that oil terminal are presented. Due to extreme outdoor working conditions a Kalman filter was implemented to ensure the robustness and reliability of the obtained measurements. Tests were performed in laboratory on a physical model of a moored oil tanker at a scale 1/100. The results were compared with a commercial motion capture system installed in laboratory. The presented measurement system was developed as part of the DOLPHIN project that aims to study the behavior of moored ships in harbors.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12